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No Model.) R LOWE' BLOUSE WAIST.

No. 365,480. 4 Patented June 28, `1887.

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

ROBERT E. LOWE, OF BROOKLYN, NEV YORK.

BLOUSEQWAIST.

SPECIFICATION vforming part of Letters Patent No. 365,480, dated June28,1881

Application l'iled Augustl, 1886. Serial No. 21l,396. (No model.)

To all whom, it may concern.-

Beit known that l, ROBERT E. LOWE, a citizen of the United States, and aresident of Brooklyn, in the county of Kings and State of New York, haveinvented a new and Improved Suspender Blouse Waist and Jacket, of whichthe followingisa specification.

The object of my invention is to provide a jacket or blouse incombination with suspenders for supporting pantaloons or other garments.

Heretofore blouse-waists,especially those intended for children, havebeen made with buttons around the waistband, so that the waistband ofthepantaloons or other garment could be bnttoned thereto and the lowergarment ysupported by the upper.

arrangement is, that the set of the blouse is injured.I It is pulleddown straight and loses its character, the fullness or blouse effectbeing entirely destroyed. I avoidthis objection by the use ofsuspender-straps combined with the waist or blouse in the mannershown,and hereinafter described, and in this my invention consists.

In the-drawings, Figure lis a Vfront view showing the outside and aportion ofthe inside of my improved combined' blouse waist andSuspenders. Fig.r2 is a back view of the outside of the said garment.

Similar letters refer to similar Lparts.

A represents the body of the blouse; G, the waistband; B B, Suspenders;O, loops or straps formedon the inside Vof the garment at the shouldersto retain the suspender-straps in position; D, buckleor other device'for adjusting the length of the Suspenders.

The objection to this A material as the body of the garment, so as towash equally well, and the'abscnce of buttons also greatly facilitatesthe washingof the garment. i

The invention can be adapted to garments Worn by grown persons, as wellas by children, of both sexes.

Having lnow fully described my invention,

what I claim as new, and desire to secure by M `Letters Patent, is

A blouse-waist provided with a waistband and having rie-enforcedbutton-holes, in combi.

nation with suspenderstraps provided with buttons at the ends andpassing under small loops attached to the inside of the blouse at ornear the shoulders, substantially as shown and described.

In testimony that I claim the foregoing as my invention I have signed myname, in presence of two witnesses, this 17th dayof August,

E., E. LOWE.-

Witnesses: l

TrIoIvIAs C. HAYs, WILLIAM H. CLEVELAND.

